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means is just that Albert is fat and Albert is not greedy and Betty is fat and
Betty is not greedy. And it means that compositionally, in virtue of what a,
b, F, and G denote plus the semantic rules for determining complex truth
conditions from simpler ones.
Suppose we could do the same for English, that is, construct a truth defini-
tion that spits out something of the form, "`----' is true if and only if ----"
for each English sentence. (Such products are called "Tarski biconditionals" or
"T-sentences," since they were inspired by the form of Tarski's (1956) theory
of truth.) And suppose each T-sentence is seen to get its target sentence's
truth condition right. Then, Davidson asks, what more could reasonably be
asked of a theory of meaning for English?
Consider: A correct assignment of meaning to a sentence should determine
that sentence's truth condition; so we know that an adequate theory of mean-
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